Cat Hospitals and Refuges 



tion. The agent of the society lives at the refuge 

 with his family, and receives animals at any time. 

 When notice is received of an animal hurt or suffer- 

 ing, he sends after it. Chloroform is invariably taken 

 along, in order that, if expedient, the creature may 

 be put out of its agony at once. This refuge is at 

 1242 Lombard Street, and there is a temporary home 

 where dogs are boarded at 923 South nth Street. 



In 1895, out of 23,067 animals coming under the 

 care of the association, 19,672 were cats. In 1896, 

 there were 24,037 animals relieved and disposed of, 

 while the superintendent answered 230 police calls. 

 Good homes are found for both dogs and cats, but 

 not until the agent is sure that they will be kindly 

 treated. 



In Miss Morris's eighth annual report she says: 

 " Looking back to the formation of the first society 

 for the prevention of cruelty to animals, we find since 

 that time a gradual awakening to the duties man 

 owes to those below him in the scale of animal crea- 

 tion. The titles of those societies and their objects, 

 as defined by their charters, show that at first it was 

 considered sufficient to protect animals from cruel 

 treatment : very few people gave thought to the care 

 of those that were without homes. Now many are 

 beginning to think of the evil of being overrun with 

 numbers of homeless creatures, whose sufferings 

 appeal to the sympathies of the humane, and whose 

 noise and depredations provoke the cruelty of the 



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